Scandal Refuted or Billingsgate Virtue
Charles Williams
1818
Medium
Etching in black, with hand-colored additions, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
23 × 33.5 cm (9 1/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44637
About the Artist
Charles Williams · 1797–1830
Charles Williams (1797–1830) was a British caricaturist and printmaker who worked in London during the final decades of the Georgian era, producing satirical prints for the thriving trade in political and social caricature that flourished in the city's print shops. He worked in the tradition established by such masters as James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, whose biting visual commentary on polit...